Building the Active Reserves

The candidates for inclusion into the Active Reserves who meet the applicable legal conditions are invited to submit, over the course of September, their applications to the Personnel Office of the SVK Armed Forces via the recruitment teams based in each regional administrative capital, depending on their place of permanent residence. Throughout the year 2017, the SVK Ministry of Defence is planning to train 50 members of the Active Reserves in the engineer military occupational specialty. The training is scheduled to be conducted between 15 and 26 May 2017. For each calendar year, the soldiers who are to remain in the Active Reserves shall be entitled to a motivational benefit in the amount of 600 euros, which shall be payable retrospectively to them provided that they have undertaken at least 75 per cent of the training scheme. Moreover, they shall be entitled to a commensurate proportion of rank-based pay, as well as to travel allowance to cover the cost of travel from the place of their permanent residence to a designated area and vice versa. They shall also be held materially accountable for the military equipment to be entrusted to them.

To qualify for inclusion into the Active Reserves, the candidates must meet several conditions. More information is available at Oznámenie Ministerstva obrany SR o možnosti zaradenia vojakov v zálohe do aktívnych záloh. The amended Act on Liability to Conscription, which allows the use of the Active Reserves even in a time of security, has been valid since January 2016.